There will not be an option to roll over any badge to Housing registration will begin at noon Eastern on February 13, and event registration for ticketed events will open at noon Eastern on May Based on evolving public health and safety concerns, Gen Con will implement vaccination and masking requirements for all in-person convention participants in an effort to provide a safe and healthy environment for attendees, partners, and staff. Everyone participating in Gen Con Indy — including all attendees, exhibitors, gamemasters, event organizers, and event staff — will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID with a vaccine approved or authorized by the FDA or WHO, and proof of vaccination will be required to attend the convention and gain entry to the convention center.
Details about acceptable documentation and the verification process will be announced in the coming months, but convention organizers anticipate that participants will be required to show either verified digital proof of vaccination on a smartphone or their physical vaccination card, along with government-issued ID, before entering the convention center. Secretly, they have never stopped dreaming about the thrust of all their entrepreneurial actions and deeds — reaching the stars.
Now, the time has come for them to embark on a second giant leap for humankind, to make the outer reaches of the solar system our home. Only one of them shall go down in history as the first explorer of space and a person who truly forged their will and power according to the bold words: citius, altius, fortius — faster, higher, stronger.
Immerse yourself in a fast-paced race to the final frontier: space. A deck-building confrontation of swift decision-making and tactical choices, Rocketmen gives you the feel of taking a front seat in a technologically wonderful spectacle of space exploration. Savannah Park from Capstone Games. In Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind — but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces.
Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game, and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play. On a turn, you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up, flip face down, then move to a different empty space within their own park.
Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again, and once all tiles have moved, the game ends with a scoring round. First, tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires 1, 2, or 3 on the bush-fire space.
Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally, score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains, the more points you score, e. The player with the most points wins. Your response team must work together, using your individual talents to avert an ecological disaster, one which threatens to contaminate marine life and devastate the ecosystem.
The situation is dire and escalating by the minute, so there is no time to waste. This fully cooperative game, for players, features a 4-way dice tower as the oil rig, which randomly drops oil dice onto the four quadrants of the game board.
In this respect, the game is a reverse tower defense game, as players sail the perimeter trying to push back and contain the oil, remove dice from the water and save the sea life. When Alexander the Great died in BC, he left no clear heir to the immense empire he had conquered.
By BC they had given up on succession and began to carve out their own kingdoms. Successors is a player game based on those wars. Successors was first published in by Avalon Hill. Some years later a second edition rulebook was published that gave more options for the Tyche cards. The fourth edition of Successors includes more generals, more scenarios, new Tyche cards, plenty of new components, and a changed map, with Libya and Cyrene being merged.
Velocity: Vanguard from Precarious Games. You are the Vanguard… the first. Reach into the unknown with fledgling spacefaring technology and hopefully return to accolades.
As Commander, your goal is to successfully complete your missions and discover what lies beyond Sol. Velocity: Vanguard is a physics-based space board game with fast and kinetic gameplay. Story driven missions are designed for 1 to 4 players as individual commanders or teams.
Choose your faction, crew, ships and modules… then embark! Through a unique physics based mechanic, players control where their ship will be by manipulating their vector token with a navigation action. Each ship has unique handling characteristics that make this an exciting part of gameplay. Depending on the mission and mode solo, co-op, competitive , each player controls a faction with 1 to 3 ships per faction, for a set number of rounds, or until a particular objective is completed.
Within a round, each player will take turns activating ships by placing crew members in navigation, module or specialist crew action slots. After crews have been assigned, the player will move their ship on the tactical board the number of hexes and direction indicated by their vector token on the vector board.
Before, during or after movement, players trigger crewed actions by spending energy and then exhausting that crew. Your ships will be well equipped to explore, defend or attack with modules including weapons, defense systems, scanners, support and specialist crews. In the core game, each of the 3 ship classes possess unique strengths of their creator factions and are further customized by the player during mission setup.
There are 18 modules and 12 specialist crews available to choose from in the core game. Each ship class can hold a limited number of modules and crew.
Module and crew selection depends on the mission, and could include drafting, budget, free-for-all or recommended load-outs. Whether you enjoy solo, co-op or competitive story driven missions, skirmish or building your own scenarios, Velocity: Vanguard has almost endless replay-ability. Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition from WizKids Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition brings back the classic game of exploration, expansion, and development with the Clash of Cultures base game and the Civilizations and Aztecs expansion in one box!
Furnace from Hobby World See my review here Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies, extracting resources, and processing them in the best combinations possible.
At the end of four rounds, whoever has the most money wins. Great Western Trail Second Edition from Eggertspiele America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. The Hunger from Renegade Game Studios The Hunger is a race in which each vampiric player must optimize their card deck, hunt humans to gain victory points, fulfill secret missions, and eventually acquire a rose and return to the castle before sunrise.
The Hunger plays players in about 60 minutes! Key to the Kingdom from Restoration Games Key to the Kingdom is a restoration of the classic game. There are three game modes to play: The first one introduces fire and volcanoes; The second mode uses wooden resources; And the third one features cavemen tokens. Maglev Metro contains two unique maps. Merchants of the Dark Road from Elf Creek Games After half a year of daylight, we must now prepare for the dark season.
Neoville from Blue Orange Games Neoville is looking for architects to build a city that is a combination of human habitation and the natural world. Who will design the most harmonious city with nature? Neoville is for two to four players ages 10 and up.
Paris from Game Brewer Explore Paris in the 19th century. The evil had not been vanquished. The game takes place twenty years after Dr. In Abomination , your resource cubes deteriorate over time, forcing you to work quickly if you want to build the best monster. Last year, they released the third edition of Arkham Horror. Now, the publisher has released Final Hour , which takes much of the same cooperative gameplay players love in traditional Arkham Horror and distills it down to a quick, minute adventure.
Black Angel looks…complicated. My board gaming group is more on the casual side and, while I think Black Angel looks incredible, it just might be too much for them.
Black Angel sees you playing as different ship AIs abroad the titular intergalactic frigate. Cloudspire attempts to instill a bit of that MOBA flavor into board gaming. The game seems incredibly replayable. Each player starts with a different race that comes with their own unique units and heroes. You can also bid for new mercenaries to shore up any weaknesses that your original collection has. Add in the fully modular board, and you have a game that should feel different almost every time you play.
Horrified is a fully cooperative game set in the classic Universal Monsters universe. The obvious comparison is a game like Pandemic ; however, there are a few key changes from that game. Horrified has you and a few friends going around a game board trying to stop different monsters.
So, where in Pandemic you did the exact same thing to cure each disease, Horrified has unique mechanics for each monster. It looks easy-to-learn and puts an interesting twist on Pandemic -like games. However, then I watched a game being played and was instantly reminded not to judge a book by its cover.
Letter Jam is a word game that uses mechanics from games like Hanabi. In front of you are a few cards with different letters on them. If you have a group that loves word games, this is a must-play. Speaking of insta-buys, Machi Koro Legacy was the first game I picked up simply because of how often Machi Koro is played in my house.
My wife absolutely loves the base game. We played it nightly for weeks when we first purchased it and it still gets heavy play in our rotation today. So, I had to pick this up for her.
The city-building, dice game is incredibly fun with several different approaches to winning. Of course, with this being an LCG, the base set is only the beginning.
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